COMING UP

Noisy

In the absence of voice, forms say the unsayable….noisily. Whilst the works Untitled/Bullet-proofs, Kaputt…then again and Speak up girl are mute, installed in the gallery, they create a narrative, assuming feeling postures to give shape to silence.They express in material form an inner bodily awareness and occupy a liminal space between feeling and articulation, with just a veneer of consciousness.

Judy-Ann has a BFA (Visual Arts) and practice-led Master of Arts (Research) from Queensland University of Technology. Her MA ‘the silence of objects: forming the unsayable’ explored phenomenological experience through transformed, symbolic objects.

For over ten years Factory 49 has provided a greatly-valued platform for experimentation and exposure for artists whose practice is materials-based or process-driven, or whose work sits in the reductive, concrete or non-objective traditions.
Managed and curated by practising artists Michelle Le Dain, Pamela Leung, Chris Packer, Anya Pesce and Lisa Sharp, the program includes two exhibition spaces and an outside wall series, plus exhibition/residency projects in Paris run by one of our original founders, Pam Aitken.

Proposals

Our mission is to provide artists with opportunities to expand their practices, to share and collaborate and to develop connections across Australia and around the world.

Our Sydney program includes the Front Showroom, which runs on a two-week changeover, the smaller Office Space, in which exhibitions go for four weeks, and a fun under-the stairs exterior wall, which changes every three months.

If you have a project that fits in with our non-representational program, send an email to factory49@optusnet.com.au with a brief outline of your practice, examples of the work you wish to exhibit or other details of your proposed project and we'll get back to you with more information.